John Trapp on Proverbs 17:21

Verſ. 21. Hee that begetteth a fool, doth it to his ſorrow] Solomon might ſpeak this by experience, and wiſh as Augustus did, Utinam coelebs vixiſſem, aut orbus periiſſem. Hof. 4, O that I had either lived a batchelour, or died childleſſe! to bring forth children to the murtherer, children to the Devil, that old man-ſlayer; Oh what a grief is this to a pious Parent! how much better were a miſcarrying womb, and dry breaſts? What heavy moan made David for his Abſolom, dying in his ſin? How doth many a miſerable Mother weep and warble out that mournful ditty of hers in Plutarch over her deceaſed children, Quo pueri eſtis profecti? poor ſouls what's become of you!

And the Father of a fool hath no joy] No more than Oedipus had, who curſed his children when hee died, and breathed out his laſt, with Per coacervat[illegible: 2 letters] percat domus impia luctus.

No more than William the Conquerour had in his ungracious children: or Henry the ſecond, who finding that his ſons had conſpired againſt him with the King of France, Daniel fol. 112 fell into a grievous paſſion, curſing both his ſons, and the day wherein himſelf was born; and in that diſtemperature departed the world, which himſelf had ſo oft diſtempered.